Cloudways won’t allow you to place apps under subdirectories. Since Cloudways offers managed app hosting, it wouldn’t be possible to reconcile managing these apps and placing them inside the folders of other apps.

You can, however, manually (e.g. without using the ADD APPLICATION option) install anything under a subdirectory inside an app’s folder.

We are facing the same issue migrating. Before we had /blog folder under main domain’s html_public directory. In cloudways, each application has its own folder with config files (Varnish, ssl settings etc). Hence, our option was to install manually and create a database separately via an app (Which is a roundabout way: Restore+ cloning issues?). So the questions arise:

Will we benefit from the optimizations (specially varnish related) that comes with cloudways if we manually upload wordpress than use it as an application? We need a kb to understand how varnish and redis will work for manually created wordpress installations for subdirectory. where the supporting application folder files are missing.